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The Exeter Advocate, 1923-10-18, Page 6TRAI N ING TOM By Claude Callan 1 didn't expect to accomplish everything at once, so she finally agreed that the suit was small enough. The following Sunday Tom and May were as nicely dressed as any couple at church and most of the people were greatly. surprised. "Tom must think he isgoing to lose her," one sister-in-law said. "She is going to ruin that boy:, eer= Several weeks before Tom and afraid of anything in the world ex- aunt, who had given taro," was the rgiven made by Tom's him two chairs May married something happened that cept her. ' from her attic when he 'married. removed her last doubt, She was con- "Now the proper thing for you to `Well I don't. think it is : gopd vinced that he really loved her and do," May's mother said to her, "is to taste," Aunt Lucy Hanes`°said," to put that he was at last a grown man, have a tack with him and come to an so much on your seek .wheal you are qualified to take upon himself the understanding." in debt." responsibilities of married life. I This appeared to be sensible advice, Really: Tom and May were not in but Maydidn't even consider trying it. ' . r , This occurred one evening when he debt, but Aunt Lucy's theory was that dropped over to see her just as her She remembered that her mamma used nice clothes and debts always went brothers and a number of other boys to have a serious talk with her papa hand in hand. . in the neighborhood were preparing every few weeks in an effort to come May's mother was ..the happiest WO - to go on a hunt. The air was frosty to an understanding, but the talks man at church. While she said no - and the dogs were anxious to go to never amounted to anything. Really 1 thing about the new clothes, there was the creek bottom. 'rom was invited to it seemed to May that the result of'a smile on her face which made it evi- jjoin in the hunt, and for a few minutes the talks was that her parents camel dent that she felt Sure May had fol - fie appeared to be undecided but final to a misunderstanding, and she was lowed her advice and come to an: understanding. But the best part of the whole thing was that Tom realized that his chances of accomplishing something in the fu- ture hadn't been destroyed by the ex - of an early conquest. I a slave to a man all your life I haven't pease. He felt that he could pull May was happy. She knew that another word to say, but if I were in through in spite of the money he had everything Tom had told her was true your place I would have my fights spent for his wife's clothes and his and she was ready to go with him to or I would bundle up these three chil-own, and he found that he had a little the little home his father had given' dren and move to myself. more respect for May's opinions. him on the small farm he was to mitt- May's mother frequently announced May knew that he was thinking vete, that she hadn't another word to Say, In less than two months Tom and but after making this announcement May were in their home, far away in she always thought of something else the hills and out of sight of other and said she couldn't keep from say - homes, but this just suited them. They ing it. felt that they would be willing to live "The trouble with you," she con right there forever and not see a rely- tinued, "is that you are afraid of Tom. tive or friend. The cold rain was You ought to tell him that you are pouring down on their little home, young and that you are not going to which was leaking in several places, lock yourself up in this house' and a fault which did not disturb them in never see anybody. Just tell him that the least. May had arranged bright he is very good company, but that you new pans to catch the water and she was watching Tom build shelves in the kitchen, It is true that the shelves might have been considered a pretty rough should ask for anything better than to job by some people, but they were the be around him all the time. He didn't only kind that Tom could afford, and even feel that it was necessary for him a good woman is usually satisfied with to look his best. He thought that his almost nothing if she knows that her wife ought to be proud of him at his husband is doing his best and really worst and he went around looking his worst most of the time. After all the relatives and friends had finished giving advice May went about training Tom in her own way. First of all, she told him that they both should have nicer clothes, and when he said that they never saw any- body much and that nobody ever saw them she replied warmly: "Well, we see each other." If this made any impression on him she failed to detect it. He seemed to him. "It makes it easier to clean, and figure that, since they were married, besides when I get the papers on the it made no diffreence how each one shelves nobody will be able to notice appeared to the other, but she had an that they are not even." entirely different view. She not only The rain was so heavy that some wanted him to think that she was people might have thought that the house was in danger of being washed away, but May wasn't uneasy. , She had Tom there to protect her and she felt that there was no need of her being afraid of the elements. Not satisfied with the shelves he had ly he made up his mind to Tremain at, determined not to try the same thing the house with May, and his determ on Tom. ination to do this was unshaken even! "All right," the mother said. "Do when he heard the hounds filling the as you please, but don't blame me for air with a rich -toned announcement the consequences. _ If you want to be want to see someone else occasionally. May made no response to this, al- though she felt that Tom really had come to the conclusion that no woman trying to make things comfortable for her. "That top shelf slants backward a little," Tom said in an effort to dis- parage his own work. "I like that," May said, "because it will hold things better." "Well, if I haven't got the other shelf slanting toward the front!" Tom announced. "That won't hurt a bit," May told young and pretty, but she wanted him to dress up occasionally so she could feel proud of him. It really looked as if Tom was to have his way and that he and May would settle down with the one object of accumulating money and getting built, Tom was anxious to do still more the children raised, so the children in to make May happy, and every time turn could marry, settle down and de- they went to town together he wanted vote their lives to raising their chil- to buy something nice for her or for dren, but May didn't give up. She the house, but she knew that he decided to begin her campaign by im- couldn't afford to spend so much and proving herself, and knowing that asked the young bride. "Yes, ma'am," she told him that they must be sets- Tom would be mad if she spent a lot said the veracious dealer. "We've got fied with what they had until he made of money for a fine dress to wear in some that was caught this very morn - a good start in the world, a thing that public, she spent all her savings for ing." She got oysters. she was sure a man of Tom's ability one nice house dress, could not fail to do. One afternoon when Tom came from When young Robert arrived in the work he found his wife wearing this home the house was filled with rela- bright dress instead of the dingy one tives for several days, but finally Tom he had expected to see. When she Played a Hero's Part Capt. . S. Robinson, of the C.P.R. steamship Empress of Australia, who is being highly commended for his splendid seamanship and great cour- age when his ship was in danger dur- ing the Japanese earthquake. He this, but she said nothing about her saved the vessel, and rescued at least victory. She simply made up her mind 5,000 people from the disaster. All that she would not lose any of the ! the ship's linen was used for bandages ground she had gaii.ed, and every and dressings. afternoon for a week when Tom cannel home he found her wearing one of her pretty house dresses. The next step was easy. Although Tom had looked upon the house as a shelter for them to stay in while work- ing the farm, he began to feel that, after all,: it might be best to add a few conveniences in addition to the kitchen Screenings for Sheep Feeding.Beginning with the first of October, screenings will be freely offered com- mercially along with other mill feeds and coarse grains. An amendment of last session to the Feeding Stuffs Act, hte Address communications to Apron®mist, 73 Adelaide St West, Toronto WHY I BELIEVE IN. BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS. I shall nevr forget my first lesson in stock judging, when I was a fresh- man in the college of agriculture. We were handed score cards which gave the names of the various parts of the animal and the per cent to be given in case the animal in question was perfect. I was dumbfounded. I had fed and watched pigs grow, milked cows,; and worked horses all my life, and yet there on the card were words I had never before associated with an animal. It proved' a revelation and an incentive for careful study. After "going over" a cow brought into the class -room, with the score card, the cow -became more than a frame cover- ed with hide and' hair. A machine was revealed with wondrous possi- bilities. The same was true with the horse, the. pig, and the sheep. When I was a youngster and fol- lowed my father around as he slopped the pigs, I would peek through the fence and watch the pigs from day to day make hogs out of themselves, In those day9 I generally had a pet, some favored one in the bunch, that . was selected because of his curly hair or perhaps the white spots on his side. Some years later part of my family chores included feeding the pigs. Just as when a lad in knee breeches. I still pick out a pig that "looked good" to me. The selection was determined artly by the pig's degree of friend - shelves. He could see that such a a Dominion measure, provides that liners toward me, and perhaps by some mill screenings shall be sold as such neat woman as May was entitled to and not mixed with shorts, as has been something better than he had supplied. the rule for many years. Pretty soon Tom: was consulting Elevator screenings fed to sheep at May about his plans, and not entirely the Central Experimental Farm at Ot- to her surprise he once more began tawa returned a value of $70 a ton referring to things en the farm as in the gains made by the stock. The "ours." When Toni bought his next suit he screenings and one-third consisting of grain ration contained two-thirds had so much confidence in May's judg- a standard ration of oats, bran and n est that he allowed her to persuade oil meal. Where fed without screen him to get a suit small enough, and, ins the standard ration used as the although he felt foolish in such a suit grain feed yielded a return of $45 a at first, he soonreached the point ton in gains made. The screenings, where he actually liked it and won- like the oats, were fed =ground. The dered why he ever bought his clothes screenings used consisted of a mix - too large. ture of cracked and shrunken wheat, One . Sunday morning, early in the hulled kernels of oats, and wild buck - summer, when Tom and May and the wheat and some other weed seeds. children drove up to the church the This product as now obtainable is so entire family looked so nice that every- cleaned either at the elevators or flour body admred them. �„ mills as to be practically free from "Haven't Tom and May come out. the fine, bitter weed seeds found in one kind old lady said to Tom's mother. screenings until recently. The Feeding Shaking her head the dear old Stuffs Act administered by the Seed mother said: "Poor Tom!" But even she was pleased when May came to her, kissed her and led her up the aisle, Tom following with May's tentage of tough fibre shall be low. In sheep feeding it is better fed un - A high-speed engine that is used ground, because sheep dislike a floury daily should be discarbonized and have feed. For hogs and cattle the screen- ings need to be finely ground in order to destroy weed seeds and to increase feeding value. Branch of the Department of Agri- culture at Ottawa, requires that it shall contain not more than one per cent. of fine weed seeds and that per - mother and the children. valves ground at least twice a year; three times is better. A slow -speed engine, at least once, better twice a. year. "Have you any fresh vitamines?" and May had the little fellow to them- selves, and they were prouder of him than they had been of the kitchen shelves. asked him how she looked he had to confess that she looked nice, but he said he couldn't see but what she looked just as well in the old one. It Tom suddenly became a grave old wasn't entirely worn out. man, and, although he thought he re- In a few weeks May had another membered everything the grandmother nice house dress. It looked as if she had told him, he kept one of .his work was thinking more of herself than horses at the gate so he could ride to she was of the children, but Tom May's mother's in case the baby should didn't complain. He said very little, cry in some peculiar manner that he but he wished that some of the neigh - couldn't understand. Two or three bors would happen over and see May times during the night he was on the in her new dress. In spite of all he. point of going for the grandmother, had said to the contrary, he felt proud but each time May managed to get of his wife in her finery, and after the baby to sleep, and the next morn- a few weeks he suggested that she ing Toni was proud of himself for ought to get a nice dress to wear to having taken such good care of the church. little fellow. As a matter of fact, he May remembered that every time had done nothing except fill the lamp, her papa had told her mamma to buy but May had bragged on him and he a new dress her mamma had been felt that he was almost the equal of satisfied with learning that hewas ready given you. It would be very will, if 'walways e do our part, get the best old women in the neighbor- willing for her to look nice Instead ice to have all ready for use, a col either that for which we ask, or some - hood. d The most powerful.lifeboat in the world is being built for use in the Mersey; she is sixty feet long, driven by motors, and has cabin accommoda- tion for fifty people. Home Education "The Child's First School Is the Family"—Froebel" Children's Prayers — By Bertha Hayward Higgins her "Mother, I think I'm going to make when his baseball nine is going to play a game. "But," said he, when we were dis- cussing it, "what if one of the fellows on the' other side prays as much as I do?„ Then I recalled to him the fact that "God help; those who help them- selves," and together we summed up the conclusions, that regular system- atic practice would be needed, and all the fellows on the winning team would favorite one every night, and have the need to be brave and honest, and al - others ready for . special occasions. ways play fair. There are so many times when you I tried to make him see that while want to ask God for something, or our prayers may not always be ans- thank Him for that which . He has al- wered in just the way we expect, we ofbuying the ress, mamma would lection of prayers which someone has thing better.., Irl proof of this I re- 7'ar almost a year after this time begin to talk economy, but May took already thought out and expressed in called his disc ointment last summer Tom continued referring to everything Tom at hie word and m a short time more beautiful language than you at the postponement of the on the place as ours. He net only she had the dress made, but she re- p e Sunday would' be likely to use if you made School picnic, because of a rainy day a collection of prayers," said my small boy one evening. "Very well," said I, "I think that will be fine. Are you going to paste them in a scrap book?" "Yes, but I'm going to learn them first. But when can I say them? I can't say them all every night, can I?" "Well, perhaps not if you have a large collection, but you can say your marked color or texture of hair. felt that May was his partner, hut he fusel to wear it unless Toniwould took the baby into the firm. So long buy a new suit for himself them hastily:" 1 when he had prayed for a sunny day. "You, Now whenever he finds a prayer We had the, picnic later on, and we as he - owned nothing he appeared. to look'so -nice when you are • _, _ be perfectly willing for May to enjoy dressed up," she said to her husband which he wants to add to his collet also . had a large quantity of black the ride and share the responsibility and though Tom was not ' tion; we read it through and discuss berries, which we would not have had p g o more vain girls on the farm have every oppor- tunity to acquaint themselves with the best information along practically every line of farm production. I worked with a group of boys and itoet girls this year in the pig clubs. These young people are just like I was when I was their age. They milked cows, fed pigs, drove horses, and plowed. corn. There was nothing special for them to think about except getting up at 5 a.m., work all day, and milk the cows after sundown. A NEW DEPARTURE. Forty boys in this community this year changed this old program. leach assumed the ownership and: responsi- bility of feeding and caring for a purebred pig. Four distinct business organizations or clubs were formed, each selecting officers from their own number and adopting a regular con- stitution and by-laws. Meetings were held regularly each month. Anyone doubting the ability of a bunch of youngsters from eleven to eighteen to conduct a meeting in true parliament- ary style, with a little coaching, should make an effort to visit a boys' and girls' club in most any agricultural community. These youngsters grab at the chance to run their own meet- ings, and they do it right, too. f have ` actually seen a bunch of ten boys cone duet a meeting themselves in a more businesslike manner than do many adults. Meeting with their own group gives these lads confidence in them- selves, and they get information' in parliamentary law which they will never forget, But there are other factors that are just as important, perhaps more so,. In the club activities. Feeding and caring for their pigs, each attempting to raise the best in the county, molds our future hog breeders. When the judging lessons are given, and the try -outs for the county judg- ing team are staged, no more earnest and sincere group can be found. A baseball game or a football contest has no advantage over a contest of this kind for intense and concentrated interest on the part of the players. It is a gruelling contest,. These forty lads started at seven o'clock in the morning and worked till six at night, judging twenty-five class- es of stock, which included horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs. And at the end of the day each contestant was asked to give his reasons on four classes of stock judged during the day. IMPRESSIVE SIGHT. It is no small task to keep in mind the details of a particular class of stock, singling them out of ten or mors bunches judged, and give reason on placings several hours after seeing them, Yet these youngsters stood up individually before a group of sixty men and women who made the trip, .. and told in detail why they made their placings. It was an impressive sight to sea these boys work and hear then give their oral reasons and explanations. Following the boys' and girls' club work in its various activities is amply convincing that it is one cf the great- est of forces for agricultural pro- gress.—B. R. LEARNED. I had never .paid any attention to the judging at the fall festival or the county fair because in those days these festivities, as far as I was concerned, were picnics where red lemonade flow ed freely, the sports bet on horse races,' and every one stayed till sundown to • see the balloon go up. Any demonstra-! tion in judging livestock was carefully hidden at the far end of the track, so that very few knew anything about it, And even if you knew about it, and were fortunate enough to see the judge in action, his manner made the work more mysterious and meaning- less. There was never' an explanation. or a reason given for any placing. On my first Thanksgiving vacation from college I was out in the cow lot and the pig pen at home every day making comparisons and scoring indi- viduals. I was actually getting ac- quainted with them. Though I had known them all my life, they were strangers until the score card made the introduction. Those elementary lessons in judg- ing, and later the participation in judging contests with other colleges at the big livestock shows and the judging at fairs, are among the most pleasant of my experiences. In contrast to my early boyhood, days on the farm, the boys and girls of to -day ,have an opportunity to take advantage of specific training in prac- tically all branches of farm work right at hone. When I was a boy (that was not very many years ago) the boys' and girls' club idea wasn't born yet. With these institutions the boys and of Laing a partner, but after the first than the ordinary man, he decided it, then we decide on what occasions if the drought had' continued, and we unusually good crap year Tom.began she was right. Although ed thot it .would be likely eo have the most are still having blackberry.. jam. y g g a he said not feel that everything was his. : thing, he agreed with her that he did meaning for him. Some, of course, Just as I have tried always to re - He still loved May, butw he realized look nice when he as dressed. up. have to be adapted to meet his needs. twin my child s confidence, to make that, after all, she was only a woman "I just` thought this morning," she' I feel that in changing thein I have hmt ever ready to have a "good talk and that she wasn't to be considered continued, "when I saw those .men at been able to avoid dampeningthe re-` over as he calls it, so I have tried to when he was weighing the more ins- the lot that you were the nicest -look- ligious feeling that is being awakened make hint feel that nothing which in - Portant matters, that a husband and in one in the crowd and I wished! in the child, and I hope thus'. to avert terests hint is too small or too insigni- father must deride. 1 then that you had a nes* suit. I the danger that arises wherever form- ficant: to be taken to God in prayer. It was at this point that May's • Tom pretended that he didn't think al prayers are used -that they shall And just as he had learned to feel people began talking: They said that he was the nicest -looking man in the become a mere mec'nanical repetition that Mother and Dad are "good Tom was just like the rest of his crowd; but he felt that his wife had of words. E sports" and can understand and for - people, and it was a: notorious fact remarkably good 'ud naent- , ' I have always believed that a• child's give his little boyish mistakes, so:•:__e that' ,, J g os set such p g seater under. Tom's older brothers were mean. tallage. and he decided to ;let. her prayers. should be s artaneous and is comm to realize -tai to their wives. I "drive"- him to town oto buy a new natural, and that if formal prayers' standing and ever ready forgiveness "Poor May:" y .1 f the '"All -Father." said the grandmother. quit of clothes for himself: • - � are used, the should be cYp_ained and o '`alae had plenty of Warning," said The entire family went along, and,l made to have: some real significance. Just as the Indian lad when he • went a -Per who was not inclined to be while Tom allowed his wife to select. '•I believe too that the child shouldalone into the mountains to fast and tc •-: • , ilethetie. the )atter::, be wouldn't listen to her 'understand that he must do his part' pray ("mine a vision") was uncon- _ "' t Fell <oi'Fs fro!'n her being too about the sizer He had always bought in having his prayer answered. sciously setting up in his own mind husband,: ,' , , ` One' of the prayers which Laddie ( the ideal into which his claarcter would i,r•r,�i a•o la a ..usband, was the opinion clothes too large and he wasnt• going' "coection" and -Which , he develo so is the child ` who. early r" rt , Julia, Whose husband served to mora hiinSQiC lo:,k ridicujpus by 'had in his p, tart o l: two Jwwi. ,a nd who wasn't ,n't h eying a suit beat would fit, but May has adapted to his 'needs' is for use forms the habit of prayer. aw,.w.h:u ys HOW TO PREPARE AN ADDRESS Many a person dodges a gathering simply because he knows that as a member of a responsible organization he will be called upon and expected to make an address. To dodge anything is to acknowledge defeat, whereas to meet a situation is an important step toward success. Tho person who "gets out of making. a speech" lessens his own self-respect and self-confidence; but if he makes a determined effort to be ready for the occasion when he may be called upon to give "a brief address," he not only educates himself in poise and general information but in time gains recog rultion as the "ready speeder" that will make him known either in the business or in the social world: 1 To prepare for an address is simple if it is done systematically. Here are some suggestions from a person who, by following them, won a leading place in a contest over seventy others who tried for the honor of making an address: 1: Jot down at random your per- sonal opinion on the subject, for it; prevents' your talk from being stereo- typed and gives it personality. There - foie, be sure to do that before:you get, impressions either from persons or from reading matter. 1 2. Determine how long the address,I should be. 3."Decide-upon the general way in which you will express yourself whether you will be formal (in which case you must omit slang), semi- humoroue or brief and businesslike. Whatever style you choose, try to pre-- sent themost hopeful and constructive facts. 4. If you lack ideas or information, read enough "to set you going" by con- sulting at the public library such of the following books as you think are likely to help you, encyclopaedias, some yearbook or almanac, govern - ment bulletins, the Readers' Guide to Periodieal Literature (which gives references, both under the name of the subject and under the names of auth- ors of magazine articles in leading publications, both current and past) and such special books on the subject as either the card catalogue or the librarian may suggest. 5. After you have got ail the ideas on the subject that you can, outline your speech simply in this form: Introduction — One sentence Is enough for that Body -Under that heading should come a paragraph for each phase of the subject. A single word to suggest the logical order of treatment is enough. • Conclusion—In some cases a single. sentence is sufficient; other cases need,' a brief summing up in a fen forceful!' words. 6. Study the address and then copy the outline of it in large legible, wait ing or in type•vriting upon a card small enough to 'hold, -in the palm of. the -hand. If your speech is not per- fectly memorized, or if stage fright makes you forgetful, the card will keep your remarks in the logical order that makes them most interesting; and, although you may not saythem exactly as you wrote •then., ,o_n will be more likely to just because you have carefully. prepared them and 'have notes that remind you. "Jack is gelling oil stock." "Maybe that's why he's so s °•ooth." r�.